2 Days in the Valley | |||||||||
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57 Seconds | |||||||||
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Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | |||||||||
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Barbie | |||||||||
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Batman: The Long Halloween | |||||||||
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Blind | |||||||||
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Blue Steel | |||||||||
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Bluelock | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series based on the premise of Japan’s national Football (as in Soccer) team committee trying to find the best “ace” for their team through a hyper-competitive program to find someone who isn’t a team player the same way that Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan very much weren’t team players. | ||||||||
Bone Tomahawk | |||||||||
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Boruto: Naturo Next Generations – The Funato War | |||||||||
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Comments | Boxed Set 16, with episodes 232-255 | ||||||||
Desperation Road | |||||||||
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Doc Martin: Last Christmas in Portwenn | |||||||||
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Duel | |||||||||
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Equalizer 3 | |||||||||
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Equalizer Trilogy | |||||||||
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Expanse | |||||||||
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For All Mankind | |||||||||
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Full Body Massage | |||||||||
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Fun and Fancy Free | |||||||||
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Goofy Movie | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: One of Disney’s strongest movies with one of its best soundtracks. | ||||||||
Guarding Tess | |||||||||
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Hill (2023) | |||||||||
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In Love and War | |||||||||
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Justified City Primeval | |||||||||
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Last Picture Show (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Last Voyage of the Demeter | |||||||||
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Leave It To Beaver | |||||||||
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Magical Witch Punie-Chan | |||||||||
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Comments | A dark parody of magical girl anime where the magical girl is a vindictive despot of her magical world | ||||||||
Make Mine Music | |||||||||
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Melody Time | |||||||||
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Mrs. Brown’s Boys: Holly Jolly Jingles | |||||||||
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My Lucky Stars | |||||||||
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Comments | Martial arts film starring 3 of the more high-profile members of the Seven Little Fortunes – Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao | ||||||||
Nancy Drew | |||||||||
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Nun II | |||||||||
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Pooh’s Heffalump Movie | |||||||||
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Rail Wars | |||||||||
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Comments | Somewhat fanservice heavy anime about train security staff. | ||||||||
Rapa-Nui | |||||||||
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella | |||||||||
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Rudy | |||||||||
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Short Circuit 2 | |||||||||
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Sonny Chiba Collection | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains The Defensive Power of Aikido, 13 Steps of Maki, Karate Warriors, The Great Okinawa Yakuza War, Karate for Life, Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon, The Okinawa War of Ten Years | ||||||||
Sound of Freedom | |||||||||
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Comments | A Q-Anon propaganda film. (Alex: Jim Caviezel has unfortunately gone down a similar rabbit hole to the ones that Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo have gone down). | ||||||||
Spider-verse 2 Movie Collector’s Edition | |||||||||
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | |||||||||
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Sympathy for the Devil | |||||||||
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Terms of Endearment | |||||||||
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Comments | Best Picture 1983, podcast due June 28, 2024. | ||||||||
Ultraseven | |||||||||
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Comments | A selection of episodes and films featuring the character of Ultraseven from across the Ultraman franchise. | ||||||||
Weathering With You | |||||||||
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Comments | The previous film from director Makoto Shinkai (his most recent was Suzume) | ||||||||
WWE: Fastlane (2023) | |||||||||
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Young Master | |||||||||
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Comments | One of the earlier films Jackie Chan directed and starred in. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “As someone who can play UHD disks and has a turntable, the Spider-verse collection (with the bonus 7″ record) has some appeal (though I’d have preferred ‘What’s Up Danger’ as the song from Into the Spider-verse). Otherwise that Sonny Chiba collection is going on my to-get list.” Blaine says, “I’d go with Spider-Verse or Strange New Worlds this week.”
I wouldn’t pick up Duel, but it’s a must-see at least once. And there’s one really good film about teens in the 50s, and it doesn’t involve the late twenties John Travolta and early-thirties Olivia Newton-John dancing to discofied rock ‘n’ roll. If you haven’t seen The Last Picture Show, it is rightly considered a cinematic classic.
Strange New Worlds is a natural. I’ve heard great things about For All Mankind but haven’t got around to seeing it.
I haven’t seen Sound of Freedom, but I’m told it’s more covertly Qanon than outright propaganda, ie using the reality of child trafficking and an over-the-top adventure narrative to imply things it knows part of its audience will infer. However, I’ve not seen it.
For All Mankind is excellent. It gets a little soap-opera-y in Season 2 and 3, but it’s fun seeing the stuff NASA and the Soviet Union had on the drawing board actually make it onto the screen. I have not yet started Season 4, but it looks promising.